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An Energy Strategy for National Renewal

After two decades of relatively constant energy consumption, the nation faces a surge in power demand driven by artificial intelligence, domestic manufacturing, and continued electrification, developments that challenge an already-constrained electricity grid. In this way, the United States’ energy strategy must effectively bridge economic policy and geopolitical power while serving as a calibrated response to ...

Improving Housing Affordability

Housing affordability in the United States has become a major challenge for Americans and a key policy priority for US policymakers. In this paper, Benjamin Keys and Vincent Reina assess the drivers of the housing affordability challenge, concluding that inadequate supply, barriers to homeownership such as tight credit standards, and the lack of a meaningful ...

Coverage Isn’t Care: An Abundance Agenda for Medicaid

Originally a small, inexpensive safety-net program, Medicaid has grown into a major national health-insurance provider, covering nearly one in four Americans and more people than the public health insurance programs of the United Kingdom, Germany, or France. In Coverage Isn’t Care: An Abundance Agenda for Medicaid, Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Layton provide an overview of ...

Top 12 Charts of 2025 from the AESG

Happy holidays from the Aspen Economic Strategy Group! Thank you for your continued interest and support of our work. As a group devoted to advancing evidence-based economic policy, we appreciate the powerful role that charts play in telling the story of our economy. Enjoy twelve figures that showcase the AESG’s work in 2025! Figure 1: ...

Aspen Economic Strategy Group Reports related to Affordability

Policymakers across the political spectrum – and at the federal, state, and local levels – are increasingly focused on improving “affordability” for Americans. The Aspen Economic Strategy Group has released a series of reports that speak directly to this challenge. Below, we highlight five AESG reports that offer evidence-based insights into how policy can strengthen ...

Aspen Economic Strategy Group Welcomes Four New Members

Aspen Economic Strategy Group Welcomes New Members Leading business executives and academics join bipartisan group dedicated to promoting evidence-based solutions to America’s economic challenges. WASHINGTON, DC, FEBRUARY 10, 2026 – The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG), co-chaired by former U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr. and Timothy F. Geithner, today announced four ...

The Age Divide in the American Workplace

Demographic shifts are reshaping the U.S. labor market, as the share of the population within the working age has begun to decline. In The Age Divide in the American Workplace, Nicola Bianchi and Matteo Paradisi address the implications of this decline with a focus on within-firm dynamics. Over the past five decades, longer life expectancy ...

The Environmental Benefits of Low Fertility and Population Decline are Overstated

The discussion of impending population decline is often dismissed or minimized by arguments that downplay its urgency – or even welcome this development – because of the proposed environmental benefits. In The Environmental Benefits of Low Fertility and Population Decline are Overstated, Kevin Kuruc addresses this common misconception. He argues that welcoming depopulation on environmental ...